Phones cheaper than USD$400 tend to have 6-8year old chipsets

What area of the world are you from? Just curious where there is such a state of affairs.

This is definitely not true for Asia and Europe. It been a while since I was living in North America, but this didn’t seem true back then. Although I lived in a city and didn’t buy through carriers and never dealt with carrier blocking independently bought phones.

Perhaps North American carrier requirements have changed since then.

I recognise that Pinterest is a pretty big player in social media and seems to have relatively broad reach (first heard about it in my country maybe in 2011?).

It just seems Pinterest (as a product) is really subpar compared to say Insta, TikTok or even Twitter. I am not talking about their commitment against the interests of the user/public (they all suck on that front), it’s the UI/UX and subpar features.

One big one is slow loading and display of images. It’s always slow and they didn’t even try to design it in a way that would perhaps move attention away from this.

Their image categorization algorithm and source/context provision is a joke.

While I hate Google Lens with a passion, it does seem to have the most powerful source identification feature and it can come up rare variants/sources that are not available though other such systems.

My focus is on research though, not commercial activity so my use case is probably not important to Pinterest.

Their leadership actually made substantial contribution to enabling the Rohingya genocide.

Sure they weren’t the ones burning families alive in their houses.

But IMO knowingly focusing on avoiding and limiting responsibility instead of immediately working on resolving the role of FB in the Rohingya genocide, has a level of equivalency.

This is just one example. There are many others spanning a range of areas in including fraud enablement, user harm

Btw, I am not saying I would judge everyone who works at FB. Although I feel there would be few exceptions for anyone in a somewhat senior position or above (be it an a technical or business type position).

That makes sense. Both in terms of their market and how you could integrate it with your work.

That being said, its not a very a good visual search engine, I am thinking more in terms research type work and I understand that’s not how people use Pinterest and their needs maybe be focused on more general tasks and Pinterest features are good enough for the mass market.

For some reason, whenever I encounter Pinterest the first thing that comes to mind is a Potemkin village. The internal contractions of their platform are just jarring. Their whole business works on images of others, yet the have the most annoying system for limiting easy access to the source image and nagging for nagging to register.

Never understood why people would care about how did an invite on pseudo anonymous underground forum.

Curious what you use Pinterest for in a business sense, selling art?

My association with Pinterest is trash tier website that does everything an image focused community is not supposed to do.

Their performance and general UI/UX is comically bad, you would have to put in effort to make something so slow and bloated feeling and with no good features to speak of (not even one).

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If you’re refering to the header image.

Surprised to hear that the TSMC node isn’t available at all. One would think if they went with all the trouble of porting their design to a different node, they would add something extra for all those of us who are not moving off AM4 in the next 3+ years.

Even $300 is too much for a dumb smartphone.

They do include Dual SIM/SD, so storage is not an issue. Still too high of price.

There are situations were people use such CPUs for both gaming and use cases were you do use the extra cores/cache.

You know, I don’t think you’re being fully honest with what you’re saying.

Not an accusation! More like a statement.

This is a gross simplification and it sounds like demagoguery to me.

There are many well structured/thought out reasons why you would view US governance (in the general sense) in a more positive light than the CCP and this is true even if you are not American and aren’t subject to their locks propaganda.

Framing everyone who holds that view as being ignorant or provincial really undermines your arguement.

But what really gives you away is framing US involvement in Korea as an invasion of North Korea in the same vein as the invasion of Iraq.

I personally don’t see the usage of the term paper tiger to be that big of a deal in context of a tech journalism site. Professionalism of reviews, knowledgeable journalists and editorial independence are the kinds of things that make or break a technology journalism site.

That being said I personally would have avoided such a term; there are other article types were it could be a better fit.

These days you can’t be too picky if you prefer written articles (I am one of those people that doesn’t find the video format to be workable for reviews of even opinion pieces, but I fully understand why video is so popular).

Me too, but not from China. The CCP and its goons make the US oligarchy look like a reasonable choice.

Although the US oligarchs and the segment of the US population that genuinely supports crime and corruption are doing their best to change this.

The mid 90s to early 2000s gen on gen gains are rolling over in their grave.

For some reason this reminds me of the “effective altruism” movement (if you can call it a movement).

Should a program like that be initiated, they will admit that they are edgelords / demagogues and they don’t actually believe in any of this (the NK stuff in particular is strong evidence that this is all online roleplay).

A democratic society? Since when does a democratic society have a leader for life and organises mass killings and torture of citizens?

Iran is aiding russia in its genocidal imperialist invasion of Ukraine, or does that not count?

Is this a satirical comedy account? A parody of “Lemmy leftists”?

If you read the article, it wasn’t because of torrents, but sanctions on Russians.

I am referring to the use and marketing of Grok for making nude deepfakes and CSAM.

Further in this thread you claim that people are allegedly detached from reality. The reality of the matter is that Apple’s app store policy is not consistent and there are special rules for certain entities.

Surely CSAM generation and involuntary nude deepfakes are a bigger deal than piracy, I think an average person on the street (in any country, doesn’t have to be the US) would agree with me.

I also don’t see where judges come into play? Has Rave been sued in court?